Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-11-11
PERSONAL PlCKlNCS

permanently in suburb of London.
Edwin Booth keeps up his habit Of smoking
from one to two dozen cigars per d y.
Emperor William has arrived at Berlin
from Baden Baden. He is enjoying good
health.
Charles Dickens says that the pictures Of
American life painted by his father have be-
come antiquated.
Wayne MacNeagh never talks politics and
invariably excuses himself on the ground that
he is devoting himself entirely to his law
practice.
Mr.. Henry Irving is in favor of municipal
theatres. He declares it to be his belief that
a well conducted theatre is as necessary as a
free library.
Ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Charles E. Coon is in Europe engaged in
great financial transactions in which millions
are involved.
The king of Corea furnished his winter
palace with SlS, 900 worth of American chairs,
beds and tables He also bought an American
steamer for $4,000
Col Thomas Porterhouse Ochltree is will
ing to confess that he made money recently
in Wall street, but says the amount was not
100000, as reported
Gen. Lew Wallace, while in Constantinople.
became a personal friend of the present sui
tan, and communication between them has
been kept up ever since.
William Walter Phelps is as fond Of arts
tic neckties as Gen. Hustled or the late Emery
StorTs, and he finds great delight in strolling
by the habcrdashers' windows.
The Duke and Duchess of Montrosc, accom-
panied by the Dowager Duchess, known for
her devotion to the race course. started for
India at the close of the racing season in Eng
land
There is no truth in the story that Tolstoi,
the great Russian novelist, is out of his mind
A Russian journalist, who has just paid him
a visit, describes him as perfectly healthy
and perfectly sane
NJ. Grevy. president of the French Repub-
lie, enjoys smoking pipe, and does so when
ever he can without offending decorum. He
is man of very simple habits, and rises and
retires at an early hour.
John r. Tucker, of Virginia, one of the
counsel for the condemned Anarchists of
Chicago, is a great buttermilk drinler He
thinks it is the best beverage in the world for
use while making a speech.
Henry W. Grady, of The Atlanta Constitu-
ton, is bird fancier He has had eighteen
pairs of pigeons shipped him from Utica,
n Y. There are pigeons of all sorts up in
Utica, and some of the other sort ought to be
Shipped too.
Walter Besant's effort to raise 100000 to
build Dickens memorial in London brings
to mind the fact that the great novelist in his
will emphatically disapproved of any such
act on the part of his admirers. He believed
that his works were sufficient monument tc
his memory.
Mr. John Jacob Astor's gastric fever is said
to have been brought on by eating apple
dumplings. There is $1,000 year chef il
the house, but Mrs. Aston prefers old fash
toned New England cooking and has it pre-
pared by an old negro woman employed fol
that purpose.
Valid Aid the dead King of Oudh, was
poet, whose renown extends from the Hima
layas to Cape Comorin, for his love song
have obtained an immense popularity
throughout India. His majesty r. ,eived
pension of 100000 year from the Indian
government, which will be continued to hi
heirs.
Chauncey NJ. Depew arranges his dime
engagements just the same as route agen
for a theatrical combination maps out hi
dates. He has book in which are noted il
one column the day and date in another it
acceptance or declination and in the third tn
topic he is to talk on. Private Secretar,
Duvol has charge of this diary. He is KEEP
busy booking" dates just now.
DR. W. Seward Webb, the son-in-law o
W. H. Vanderbilt and president of the Cen
trails sleeping car service is large land
holder in Vermont, where he has just bee
indicted for breach of the local driving
laws. He has two mile patch of the LAX
Champain coast below Burlington, and hope
to establish fashionable colony. He is 5
popular there that his indictment is a surprise
King Humbert, of Italy, often causes al
noyance and embarrassment by taking
fancy to any little novelty which he may Sc
III the hands of any of his courtiers No mat
ter what it is-a cane of rare wood, a iewt
set in some curious way, or fantastic waite
his maj sty will show such an intense d,
sire to possess it that finally the object
offered him, and it is always replaced by
present of double or triple its value.